Folding settee



(MOdeL) I v V U. B. DEMAREST.

FOLDING SETTEE:

No. 253,826; Patented Feb. 14,1882.

- does not give the advantages of folding operaered like an opera-chair and independent of UNITED STATES PATENT "OFFICE.

CORNELIUS B. DEMAREST, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FOLDING SETTEE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 253,825, dated February 14, 1882,

l Application filedJanuary 15,188l. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, CORNELIUS B. DEMAR- EST, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 57 South Tenth street, Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Folding Settee, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in settees which have folding seats, or seats capable of being raised from a position at or near the horizontal to a position at or near the vertical, for the purposes of saving room, facilitating ingress and egress, and piling and storing compactly andeasily; and the object of my invention is to provide settees having a folding frame with independent folding seats.

Folding frames for settees are old, and folding seats are old, both in single seats and in continuous seats of settees; but i'oldingframes for settees provided with independent folding seats pivoted to the movable legs of the 'folding frame are new. As now' made, in some instances, if-the seat is lifted the legs must fold also. This gives the advantages of piling and storing compactly in a small space, but

seats as well; whereas my invention has both these advantages. In other instances preceding inventors hinge the seat to some part of the rigid back frame, leaving the movable leg free. In my invention, however, the seat is pivoted to the movable legs, and the movable legs are prevented from spreading by straps which connect them with the other legs and the back frame which is a continuation of these other legs. These straps keep the settee in position while the seat may be raised or lowthe frame and legs. I attain these objects by mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-'- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the settee; Fig. 2, an end view; Fig. 3, a perspective view, showing the settee and seats folded for piling and storing. One seat is shown as up and the other as down in Fig. 1.

LL L are long continuous pieces constituting legs for the settee at the bottom, and at the L L L are shorter pieces constituting the .folding legs, and are pivoted in any usual manner to the pieces L L L at P. 7 VS S are opera-seats pivoted to the legs L L L at P P P. But two seats are shown in the drawings. Any desired number may, however, be added upon the same plan. The bottoms of the backs B B are conveniently used as stops to arrest and hold the seats S S in position for use, the rear side of the seats being extended far enough to strike the bottom edge of the back or back frame.

J J J J are flexible straps, fastened at one end to the back frame and at the other to the top of the short legs L L, 850. made of strong tape, strips of cloth, leather, or other suitable material, or they may be made of hinged strips or pieces of metal which will fold and permit the legs to told, as shown.

These folding settees may be made almost entirelyof wood, thereby securing lightness and desirable portable qualities.

The details of construction for the seats and backs may of course be varied.

The upward movement of the back end of the seat S is prevented byits striking the under side of the cross-piece which constitutes the bottom part of the backframe. It is evident that stops for the seat may be attached to some other part of the back frame in such a manner as to keep the seatin the same po sition without direct contact with the crosspiecc above mentioned.

I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim as my invention- In folding settees, the folding legs L and L, connected by the straps J J, in combination with the seat S, pivoted back of its center to the legs L only and at their upper ends, whereby the frame of the settee may be folded and the front side of the seat S is made movable upward and the rear end is made movable downward independently of the folding frame, and like an opera-seat, in the manner and for the purpose set forth. CORNELIUS B. DEMAREST.

Witnesses:

W. H. WILLis, J r.,

top frames forthe backs.

THOMAS F. MANAHAN.

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